Industrialisation & industrial history books

Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the...  Read More >>

In Windmill Tales, in nearly one hundred beautiful full-colour images, photographer Wyman Meinzer shows American...  Read More >>

Now back in print. The rise and fall of a Southern financial empire.  Read More >>

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1936, Issues discussed include ownership of land and capital, administration and finances...  Read More >>

Charts Britain's transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power over three centuries from...  Read More >>

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Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions...  Read More >>

Charts Britain's transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power over three centuries from...  Read More >>

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From 1933-45, Nazi Germany undertook massive industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct...  Read More >>

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of...  Read More >>

This book examines the work of Tyneside trailblazers and world firsts from medieval times to the 20th century describing...  Read More >>

This book provides a unique historical and qualitative review of ten foreign automakers with plants in developed...  Read More >>

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A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of...  Read More >>

Since Russian tradition and institutions resemble those of Asia and Africa as much if not more than the patterns...  Read More >>

It is widely admitted that organized economic interests determine political decision making at many levels of the...  Read More >>

Using a wide range of public and private records and by examining contemporary environmental regulations, this study...  Read More >>

This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. The meaning of Improvement...  Read More >>

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